Yuly Rottenberg

Yuly Rottenberg (b.1997, Tel Aviv, Israel) explores in her paintings the relationships with herself, with her face and body and with her role as a painter. Her series of self- portraits create a sense of intimacy built on top of an exposed and extroverted optical distortion. In choosing the specific shooting angles, tension is dictated between the demonstrative grotesque possibilities of the female body and its delicacy and refinement. The body image undergoes a process of alienation, and a question is asked about its sexuality.

Nudes covered, hidden in translucent synthetic fabrics, emerge in a glorious embarrassment between the folds of the canvas while attempting to trace a classical tradition of representing the female body. Inspired by Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings of the mountains of New Mexico near her home, Rottenberg figures turn into landscape paintings, full of sensuality, femininity and loneliness.

Rottenberg received her BFA from Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, obtaining the Igal Zak Excellence Scholarship.